Posted in Reading on Jul 31st, 2009
While in Anacortes and Friday Harbor with my parents, husband, kids, and in-laws(!) last weekend, I also managed to read The Penderwicks, a delightful, charming, and heart-warming “Summer Tale about Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very Interesting Boy” (as the subtitle puts it), which won a National Book Award for Young People’s Literature in [...]
Posted in Reading on Jul 28th, 2009
I’m reading The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society right now and am enjoying it immensely—more than I expected to, given the strange title.
Here’s what I’ve noticed 50 pages in: I see no overarching “conflict” or plot arc that is keeping me hooked. There is not tension, let alone conflict, on every page. There [...]
This agency’s website says they will get back to you in a few weeks to request additional information and please don’t follow up because if you haven’t heard, they’re not interested.
It’s been a few weeks (six and a half, to be exact). I haven’t heard.
They’re not interested.
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So here’s what I wish I’d done differently in [...]